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Quotes About Decision

I see you've met Desire and Fulfillment...Regret is in the kitchen making coffee.
~ Tom Robbins
In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE
~ Tom Robbins
Whether you need the solace of normality more than you need your unique power is a personal matter, which only you may decide. But Sissy, don't let people such as Julian Gitche influence your decision. Julian needs your thumbs, huge and murmuring like the mouths of unexplored rivers – just the way nature made them – even if he isn't wise enough to understand that he needs them.
~ Tom Robbins
I recommend that you make all of your major moves on the first of April. Just in case.)
~ Tom Robbins
CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.
~ Tom Robbins
Success can eliminate as many options as failure
~ Tom Robbins
Qualifying an opportunity at the outset helps you determine whether it's worth pursuing at all, and, if it is, with how much effort.
~ Tom Sant
These are tough choices. You may find yourself torn between wanting to propose the very best, most effective solution you can and wanting to submit the most competitive proposal possible.
~ Tom Sant
Does it go on the "keeper" pile or does it go on the "discard" pile? That's the first question your prospects are probably going to ask, because it's likely that the reviewers are staring at a pile of submissions much larger than they can reasonably handle.
~ Tom Sant
There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.
~ Tom Stoppard
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
~ Tom Stoppard
Kad u glavi imamo re?enice, mislio sam, još uvek nemamo odlu?nost i da ih stavimo na papir. Re?enice nas plaše, najpre nas plaši misao, onda re?enica, naposletku to što tu re?enicu možda više nemamo u glavi kada ho?emo da je zapišemo. Vrlo ?esto neku re?enicu prerano zapišemo, neku, opet, prekasno; re?enicu moramo da zapišemo u pravom trenutku, ina?e je zauvek izgubljena.
~ Tomas Bernhard
But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.
~ Toni Morrison
Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that's the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.
~ Toni Morrison
Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.
~ Toni Morrison
it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)
~ Toni Morrison
Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate
~ Toni Morrison
An editor is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one then you are better off alone.
~ Toni Morrison
One taught her the alphabet; another a stitch. All taught her how it felt to wake up at dawn and decide what to do with the day.
~ Toni Morrison
I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.
~ Toni Morrison
There was no point in questioning him. Just as long ago, when they ventured hand in hand into unknown territory, Cee accompanied her big brother silently. As annoyed as she was now at her relapse into doing what others wanted, she nevertheless cooperated. This one time, she told herself. I don't want Frank making decisions for me.
~ Toni Morrison
deathbreath was a prime creator, a great changer of minds and collector of hearts. Any decision made while inhaling it was as unreliable as it was fierce. Reason in moments of crisis was rare.
~ Toni Morrison
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
~ Toni Morrison
Do you want him? I want somebody, I told her. He's as good as anybody, she said.
~ Toni Morrison